Who Is Adam Sloane?
Four lives. One body. No single truth.
A complete story built for its form.
Eli Redbird works nights in a county-contracted mortuary, preparing people no one has claimed. When an overdose victim arrives under the name Adam Sloane, Eli recognizes Mateo, the lover who vanished from his life ten years earlier.
Before the county can dispose of the body, three more people arrive with records, memories, and injuries proving equally intimate claims. Their search connects abandoned families, exploited workers, compromised institutions, and a respected labor contractor. The mystery is not which identity was real. It is who may claim the truth without causing further harm.
Every answer creates another claimant.
The series uses a high-frequency identity engine: each new record, relationship, memory, or injury revises the audience’s understanding of the dead man and the living people seeking him.
The mortuary creates an immediate clock and a contained hero world. Eli’s professional expertise gives him access to the investigation, but not ownership of its meaning. The season resolves the inquiry without pretending that exposure can produce complete justice, or that one name can erase every life the victim lived.
Built into the story.
- 65 short-form vertical episodes.
- Complete serialized season.
- Principal environment: a county-contracted mortuary, supported by controlled interiors and limited exterior work.
- Episode movement built around claimants, identities, records, injuries, memories, and ethical choices.
- Developed around a contemporary gay Cahuilla lead and a queer ensemble without reducing the property to romance, morgue horror, or a conventional procedural.
Complete screenplay, spoiler-complete buyer treatment, and complete client-facing package.
A one-sheet, visual pitch deck, buyer treatment, complete screenplay, and related development materials are available for controlled review.
Any development or production path should preserve the property’s cultural specificity through appropriate consultation and casting integrity.
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The property may be considered for acquisition, option, licensing, co-development, packaging, or producer-led production discussion.
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